Top Links
- Visual Studio: New React TypeScript SPA Templates and More (Jiayan Chen)
- Infinite chat with history embeddings (Craig Dunn)
- Watch the September 21 Event (Microsoft)
- Introducing Copilot support for Python in Excel: Advanced Data Analysis Using Natural Language (David Monroy)
- New Surface devices bring more value to business (Nancie Gaskill)
- Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion (Yusuf Mehdi)
Web & Cloud Development
- jQuery: How do I check if an element is hidden? and How to Remove a Specific Item from an Array in JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)
- Auto delete files in Azure Blob storage (Bart Wullems)
- How to Use the new Sitemap Index Coverage to Improve Your Site’s Index Coverage (Bing Team)
- Build Your Own ChatGPT Clone with React and the OpenAI API (Madars Biss)
- Setup Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core – A Beginner’s How To Guide (Nick Cosentino)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Eager, Lazy and Explicit Loading with Entity Framework Core (Maarten Balliauw)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Deploying to Azure from Azure DevOps without secrets (Alexandre Nedelec)
- The Design System Ecosystem (Brad Frost)
- GitHub: Passkeys are generally available (Hirsch Singhal)
- Using ML.NET CLI To Automate Model Training (Ivan Matec)
- Announcing the GitHub Innovation Graph (Mike Linksvayer)
- Save Time with Semantic Kernel’s Updated Error Handling (Nilesh Acharya)
- TeamCity Cloud 2023.09 Is Here (Olga Bedrina)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Get Actionable Feedback From Your Android Testers With App Distribution (Lee Kellogg)
- Studio Bot expands to 170+ international markets! (Isabella Fiterman & Sandhya Mohan)
- Geolocation Plugin 5.0.0 Released! (Norman Breau)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 175 – Little Orphan IoT (live from Applied Intelligence Live 2023) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Use AI and REST with Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- Achieve your sustainability and environmental goals with the Cloud Adoption Framework | The Azure Enablement Show (Thomas Mauer & Tobias Zimmergren)
- What I Wish I Knew… about work-life balance (John Kennedy)
- TypeScript Origins: The Documentary (TypeScript Creators)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Podcast – From Junior to Jedi: Navigating the Web Development Galaxy with Irina Dominte (Jamie Taylor)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast 128: You Work Too Hard to Miss Bigger Opportunity with Greg Martin | Lifetime at Work Podcast Host (Max Ahumada)
- InfoQ Podcast: Establishing an Open-Source Community Inside an Organisation (Natnael Belay)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Documentation as a path to Open Source with Sarah Rainsberger (Scott Hanselman)
- Web Rush Episode 252: Demystifying Reactivity in Frontend (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Are The Scrum Team Members Honest And Critical When Needed? A Scrum Master Success reflection | Tom Siebeneicher (Vasco Duarte)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – History of containerd, with Phil Estes (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- JS Party Podcast – Web dev security school (Ron Perris, Amal Hussein & Christopher Hiller)
- Rocket 456: Unredacted Christmas (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 623 – Mojo: The usability of Python with the performance of C (Eira May)
- The CSS Podcast 73: Why is my animation glitching? (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- UX Podcast – Make it more so with Chris Noessel and Nathan Shedroff (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 433: Are you telling me GitHub is a good name (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Microsoft’s Surface and AI event: all the news and announcements (Emma Roth)
- X is shutting down Circles (Jay Peters)
- Splunk and Cisco Unite To Accelerate Digital Resilience as One of the Leading Global Software Companies (Gary Steele)
- Business, labor, and others join to support Microsoft’s position in FTC appeal (Brad Smith)
- Webinar: CI/CD Pipelines for .NET With TeamCity, October 3, 2023 (Olga Bedrina)
Database
- The Waiting Life Of A SQL Server Query, Revisited (Erik Darling)
- SQL SERVER – Modern Explicit JOIN Syntax – A Brief Note (Pinal Dave)
- Private Link for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server (General Availability) (Sudheesh N.)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft 365 Copilot eases the weight of work for small and medium businesses (Brenna Robinson)
- The new Outlook for Windows for organization admins (Gabriel Valdez Malpartida)
- Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Stream (Garrett Bronner)
- New Outlook for Windows now available (Margie Clinton)
- Introducing the Power Automate plugin for ChatGPT (Harysh Menon)
- How to transform work with plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI apps (Srini Raghavan)
Miscellaneous
- Yes, Microsoft broke VBScript in the new ADK (Michael Niehaus)
- Copilot in Windows and new Cloud PC experiences coming to Windows 11 (Harjit Dhaliwal)
- Hands-on with the Surface Laptop Go 3 (Jay Peters)
- DuckDuckGo CEO Says It Takes ‘Too Many Steps’ To Switch From Google (msmash)
- Microsoft’s unified Copilot is coming to Windows, Edge, and everywhere else and Mastodon gets better search, onboarding, and cross-server interactions (Nathan Edwards)
- Microsoft rumored to unveil a game-changing flip phone with a 360-degree hinge (Priya Walia)
- How does Explorer calculate the “Date” of a file? (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator (Thomas Ricker)
- Windows 11’s next big update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, RAR support, and more (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3786 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – September 21, 2023 (#167) (Richard Seroter)
- Linux resources at Microsoft (Microsoft Learn)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link